<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419226" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Haven't got a Daughter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I haven't got a daughter<br>I've got a telly-blob; <br>Ping-pong balls instead of eyes<br>Crisps stuck in her gob; <br>Her brain on auto-pilot<br>That strange hypnotic stare; <br>Laughing at the advert's<br>While slouching in her chair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The technicolour images<br>All battering her senses<br>De-sensitised this girl of mine<br>And shattered her defences; <br>Now television rules O.K.<br>She's got remote control; <br>Her world, a 24 inch screen<br>Sucking at her soul.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flicking through the channels<br>And chewing at her nails, <br>The goggle-box possesses her, <br>It's power never fails; <br>An electronic baby-sitter<br>Playing all the day, <br>And on into the dead of night<br>She wastes her life away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I haven't got a daughter<br>I lost her long ago<br>To Brookside and Eastenders, <br>And every other show; <br>But wait! I've got her back again<br>I recognize that whining: <br>I never thought a power-cut<br>Could have a silver lining! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">(Written July 1996)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Carter+Brown">John Carter Brown</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=419226" data-title="I Haven't got a Daughter de John Carter Brown" data-description="I haven't got a daughter I've got a telly-blob; Ping-pong balls instead of eyes Crisps stuck in her gob; Her brain on auto-pilot That strange hypnotic stare; Laughing at the advert's While slouching in her chair. The technicolour images All ba..."></div> </div> </div>

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